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NASA's Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) surveyed lightning flashes of all shapes, sizes, and radiances across the tropics.
Data in Action
Oct. 19, 2018
NASA's Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) has released 10 different gridded lightning climatology datasets.
Data in Action
Oct. 19, 2018
NASA climatology datasets have revealed Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, as the peak lightning hotspot on Earth.
Data in Action
Oct. 19, 2018
Visualize lightning flash locations across several user-selected Lightning Imaging Sensor aboard the International Space Station (ISS LIS) swath data files and other processes.
Data Recipe
Jan. 4, 2018
This data recipe shows how to bring gridded netCDF data into ArcMap and create a GeoTIFF file enabling GIS analysis and map making.
Data Recipe
Oct. 10, 2017
This partial history outlines NASA's unsophisticated activities using shuttle video during the early phases of sprite research.
Data in Action
May 1, 1998
The payload bay TV cameras aboard NASA's space shuttle enabled researchers to study lightning in the stratosphere above thunderstorms.
Data in Action
Aug. 3, 1994
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